Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) vs. Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) Head-To-Head Review

Bitfarms (NASDAQ:BITF) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bitfarms and Five9″s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bitfarms	$229.28 million	9.04	-$138.65 million	($0.23)	-14.96
Five9	$1.15 billion	2.04	$39.42 million	$0.69	44.43

Five9 has higher revenue and earnings than Bitfarms. Bitfarms is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five9, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Bitfarms and Five9’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bitfarms	-48.26%	-4.48%	-3.71%
Five9	4.94%	12.92%	5.65%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Bitfarms and Five9, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bitfarms	1	1	5	0	2.57
Five9	0	7	10	1	2.67

Bitfarms presently has a consensus target price of $4.67, suggesting a potential upside of 35.90%. Five9 has a consensus target price of $33.14, suggesting a potential upside of 8.10%. Given Bitfarms’ higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Bitfarms is more favorable than Five9.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

20.6% of Bitfarms shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Five9 shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.5% of Bitfarms shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Five9 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Bitfarms has a beta of 3.77, meaning that its share price is 277% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five9 has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Five9 beats Bitfarms on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bitfarms

Bitfarms Ltd. engages in the mining of cryptocurrency coins and tokens in Canada, the United States, Paraguay, and Argentina. It owns and operates server farms that primarily validates transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain and earning cryptocurrency from block rewards and transaction fees. The company also provides electrician services to commercial and residential customers in Quebec, Canada. It also undertakes hosting of third-party mining hardware. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

About Five9

Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions. The company’s platform comprises of including interactive virtual agent, agent assist, workflow automation, workforce engagement management, AI insights, and AI summaries that allows to manage and optimize customer interactions across voice, chat, email, web, social media, and mobile channels directly or through its application programming interfaces. It also matches each customer interaction with an agent resource and delivers customer data to the agent in real-time through integrations with adjacent enterprise applications, such as CRM software, to optimize the customer experience and enhance agent productivity. The company serves customers in various industries, such as banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, retail, healthcare, technology, and education. Five9, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.